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Purity Ring - Shrines
In January of 2011 a friend of mine shared with me an unassuming Vimeo video that would end up being played over and over again on my computer, much to the chagrin of those around me. The track was Purity Ring’s “Ungirthed” and I couldn’t find much about them online except for the fact that Purity Ring is Megan James and Corin Roddick and that they were from Edmonton. In the year and a half since then, more news about the duo - now based in Montreal (Roddick) and Halifax (James) – slowly trickled out until they exploded onto the radar after playing a critically acclaimed set at SXSW. Over the course of the next few months, two more singles and album artwork were released on Pitchfork along with extensive tour dates. It now seemed that everyone was talking about Purity Ring.
Their debut album Shrines, officially released by Last Gang Records on July 24th, was absolutely worth the wait. Each track on Shrines is beautiful and distinct when played alone but when listened to as a whole they are impeccable, thanks to James’s cheerfully haunting vocals layered over Roddick’s meticulously crafted percussion. James’s lyrics are playfully masochistic and bring physicality to the shimmering cues of Roddick’s instrumentals. Her soprano lilts over the music and then is often reflected back by Roddick distorted, through the low timbre of an octave modulator. Her voice is exalting in songs like “Saltkin” and “Fineshine” while “Grandloves” (my favourite song on the album which features a sample from Young Magic’s “You With Air”), seems seductive at first listen and then mournful on the second.
That’s the thing I love about this album and a major reason I can’t stop listening to it - each track changes in feeling each time you listen. I would recommend listening to the album the entire way through and then revisiting your favourite tracks one by one.
FINAL MARK: A+
Listen to: Grandloves, Fineshrine
FANTASIA FEST GIVEAWAYS
Hey music lovers and film fanatics, as you know by now, the Fantasia Film Festival is back, with CJLO DJs spinning live between films in the Hall theatre every day of the festival! Keep your ears peeled for Angelica from BVST, Julie from With Gay Abandon, Danielle from Runny Noise, Denis A from Dirty Work, Andrew from Grade A Explosives, Doc Holidae from Phantastiq Cypha and Idle Matt from Radio Fun, your 2012 CJLO Fantasia DJ lineup.
Wanna get in on the festival action? CJLO is giving away passes to the Fantasia International Film Festival! For your chance to win a pair of passes* to this year's festival, just tell us who your favourite 2012 Fantasia DJ is... now with three ways to enter!
1) Email contest@cjlo.com
2) Send a tweet to @CJLO1690AM
3) Post your answer on our Facebook wall
We'll select the winners via a draw. Remember, you must email, tweet or wall post the name of your favourite Fantasia DJ. Winners will be contacted with information about picking up the passes.
*Each pass is exchangeable for one ticket to any non-sold-out film of your choice (excludes closing night films and special presentations).
Come Celebrate Salvation From Sin's 2 Year Anniversary
Come and join us as we celebrate the 2-year anniversary of CJLO's very own late-night House Music misxshow, SALVATION FROM SIN, the 2-time award winning "Best RPM Show of the Year", produced and hosted by our very own, DJ MICHAEL TERZIAN. On Wednesday night August 1st, 2012, starting at 10pm, Michael will be joined by DJ's DON BARBARINO and Toronto`s GENE KING at "OASIS", a weekly House Music event located at LE SALON DAOMÉ (141 Mont-Royal st. EAST).
Live from Just For Laughs with the Commonwealth Conundrum
Just for Laughs has been an annual event in Montreal for three decades and this year as they celebrate their 30 years, they have invited some of the best comedians in North America and Europe to come celebrate it with them.
On Wednesday July 25th from 4 - 6pm EST The Commonwealth Conundrum will host a live broadcast from the heart of The Just for Laughs. Tune in for fun, music and your host Rebecca & Danny spinning tunes in the best place for comedy in Montreal....possibly the world!
Happy Monday
CJLO Radio has a few things today. New show; The F Hole. Classical music show that features great content on a weekly basis at 11am with Erica Bridgeman, former cohost of Ears Wide Shut. At noon we have Edge of the City with a Bill Hader interview and musical performance by Bad Weather. If that wasn't enough later today we have doc'trin on Haze World at 6pm. So keep your radio (1690AM), iPhone or TV (Bell Fibe TV Ch950) to CJLO Radio all day and don't miss a thing.
July 23rd, 2012
Read and Produced by: Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Stories by: Aisha Samu, Niki Mohrdar and Carlo Spiridigliozzi
Penn State hit hard by sanctions
The NCAA came down with an iron fist on Penn State University on Monday morning.
In a report by CNN, the NCAA fined the school 60 million dollars and banned its football team from the postseason for the next 4 years.
The school has also been ordered to forfeit all of their wins from the 1998 football season. This decision strips the late Joe Paterno's title as winningest coach in major football college history.
The punishment is related to the school covering up a child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
He was found guilty last month on 45 of 48 charges involving 10 young victims.
Katimavik supporters hold demonstrations across Canada
Supporters and former participants of Katimavik held demonstrations in Montreal, Ottawa, and Winnipeg this weekend in hopes to save the youth program cut in the recent federal budget.
The program, started in 1977 by Jacques Hébert, sends youths between 17 and 21 to live and volunteer in communities across the Canada.
Former member Andrew Murchison stated that the program has helped him in his life, as it foster's civic engagement at a critical age.
Over thirty thousand Canadians have participated in Katimavik, which costs fourteen million dollars a year to run.
Quebec students protest amid speculation of a fall election
Thousands of students took to the streets Sunday in anticipation of a possible provincial election.
The big turnout for the event, which began at Emile Gamelin Park, showed that many remain passionate in the movement despite calming down during the summer.
According to CTV news, while student leaders maintained that tuition hikes are still the major issue, others came out to protest the government's environmental and economic policies.
CLASSE spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois stated that as the youth of Quebec, it is our responsibility to also take a position on the general direction that Quebec has taken.
While CLASSE promised it won't support one particular party, it will, along with FEUQ, target the Liberal party.
The student groups will soon vote on whether to go back to class in mid-August.
Comments on Twitter end Lufti's role in the CAQ
Coalition Avenir Québec leader, François Legault, stated on Sunday that Kamal G. Lufti will cease to be the party’s candidate in the Laval riding of Comedey.
According to the Montreal Gazette, Lufti made claims on Twitter that some sovereignists are racist.
Lufti claimed that some of the sovereignists wanted to abolish multiculturalism and that some were even hateful towards other cultures.
Legault later stated that those comments are exactly opposite to the parties political orientations.
Lufti also claims to have experienced racist episodes while working on the Mouvement Desjardins. He states that he felt black for the first time in his life.
His comments were removed as of Sunday.
The CAQ must now choose a new candidate for the riding of Chomedy, as rumors state that the election campaign could begin as soon as August 1 with a possible election date of September 4th.
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